{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4f8a88fd7ba5c313c98094ab","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4f8a88fd7ba5c313c98094ab","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4f8a88fd7ba5c313c98094ab","title":"Senior Engineer, Backend: Cloud & API Development (Remote)","description":"Senior Engineer, Backend: Cloud & API DevelopmentLocation: RemoteDivision: TechnologyDepartment: EngineeringAbout Us Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) (Nasdaq: QUBT) is an innovative, integrated photonics company that provides accessible and affordable quantum machines to the world today. We are the pioneers of Entropy Quantum Computing (EQC), utilizing open quantum systems to solve NP-hard optimization problems. The Company's portfolio offers unique capabilities in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and remote sensing.Position Description We are seeking a Senior Cloud API Developer to maintain and develop our cloud APIs which allow users to interact with our photonic quantum hardware. In this role, you will maintain and expand a microservices ecosystem that orchestrates complex optimization jobs, manages user access, and connects high-level cloud APIs and low-level hardware controllers.You will be working in a hybrid environment, developing services that will run on cloud as well as on resource-constrained on-premise hardware stacks. This is a role that requires expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous event messaging, and strict API security standards.Responsibilities● Design, build, and maintain high-performance RESTful APIs using Golang and Python to support a broad ecosystem.● Architect asynchronous, event-driven workflows using RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers) to decouple job scheduling, hardware execution, and result processing. ● Optimize service-to-service communication to ensure low latency and high reliability across a distributed stack.● Monitor system health and implement distributed tracing to debug complex microservice interactions.● Implement industry-standard security best practices for API authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OIDC, mTLS).● Work within existing deployment and testing patterns to add new services to CI/CD. 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